The diagrams below show the life cycle of the silkworm and the stages in the production of silk cloth.
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The two diagrams demonstrate the birth procedure of the moth and process of producing silk cloth.
To begin with, a mature moth spawns its eggs on mulberry leaf and the silkworm larvae emerge from the eggs after 10 days from its spawn. Each of larvae grows with feeding on the mulberry leaf for 4 to 6 weeks. Then, the grown larvae transfer its shape into silk thread and they stay for 3 to 8 days inside this thread. After this period, the thread becomes a cocoon and the moth wakes up eventually, coming out of the cocoon after 16 days. The whole time to be a moth is taken around 2 months starting from spawning eggs to culminating in its birth.
Meanwhile, to produce silk cloth, a cocoon is utilized as a raw material of the cloth. This cocoon is placed into boiling water in the pot and the thread from the boiled cocoon is unwound, ranging the length of the thread from 300m to a maximum of 900m in each cocoon. At the final stage, all the threads are dyed after the materials are twisted and wove with each of them.